This Month in WoW -- September

Blizzard

The lazy days of Summer are slipping away and the cooler winds of Autumn (and blustering pirates too) are just around the corner.

In-Game Events

Darkmoon Faire
[September 3–9]

Meet Silas Darkmoon and his troupe, play games that test mind and nerve, and behold exotic sights from the four corners of Azeroth and beyond!

Arena Skirmish Bonus Event
[September 5—12]

While this event is active, Arena Skirmishes will award Honor at an increased rate. Will you answer the call to battle?

Patch 7.3 Shadows of Argus Week 2 Unlock
[September 5]

In part 2 of Shadows of Argus, finish the story of Krokuun and travel to the ruined Draenei city of Mac’Aree. Gain access to Invasion Points and thwart the Burning Legion’s plans on other worlds. Additional World Quests become available.

PvP Brawl: Shadow-Pan Showdown
[September 5—12]

Step into Tiger’s Peak Arena and get ready for the Shadow-Pan Showdown. You’ll race for control of a center control point to activate one of two bosses. The first to kill the other team’s boss wins!

7.3 Shadows of Argus Week 3 Unlock
[September 12]

In part 3 of Shadows of Argus, finish the Shadows of Argus storyline, unlock all World Quests, and venture into the new dungeon, the Seat of the Triumvirate. Activate your Netherlight Crucible on the Vindicaar to begin forging Relics.

World Quest Bonus Event
[September 12–19]

While the event is active, completing World Quests in the Broken Isles, Broken Shore, and Argus award bonus reputation with the appropriate faction.

Pirate’s Day
[September 19]

Captain Demeza sails to the goblin town of Booty Bay and recruits land-lovers into her buccaneer ranks. Visit her or her henchmen in the capital cities if the pirate’s life is for you!

PvP Brawl: Southshore vs. Tarren Mill
[September 19–26]

Originally introduced as a part of the World of Warcraft 10-Year Anniversary event, this Brawl harkens back to the early days of WoW PvP, with an epic battle between the two towns of Tarren Mill and Southshore. In this game of war, you’ll need to work as a team and deplete your foes’ resources to claim victory.

Mists of Pandaria Timewalking
[September 19–26]

While this event is active, players level 91 or higher may access a special Timewalking Dungeon Finder queue, which scales players and their items down to revisit past dungeons from the Mists of Pandaria expansion. While Timewalking bosses will yield loot appropriate to your normal level.

Brewfest
[September 20–October 6]

First celebrated by the dwarves, Brewfest now holds appeal among all the races of Azeroth! Visit the Alliance camp outside Ironforge, or the Horde camp outside Orgrimmar, and join the party!

Harvest Festival
[September 29—October 6]

The Harvest Festival is a time to commemorate those who have sacrificed their lives to help friends and allies. Feasts are held outside Orgrimmar and Ironforge in honor of these fallen heroes.

Esports

Gladiator's Summit
The Gladiator’s Summit is a brand-new show dedicated to World of Warcraft Arena events, globally. In each new episode, released regularly during the year, we’ll keep you up to date with everything happening in WoW esports. That includes all the latest information, inside scoops on regional and global championships, and more about the teams and players themselves.

North American WoW® Arena Championship Finals–September 7
Stay tuned to the official esports site for all the latest news on the WoW Arena finals leading up to BlizzCon 2017. Watch North America’s top teams battle it out on Twitch Thursday, September 7 at 1:00 p.m. PDT on to see just who will make it to the big stage in November.

Art Contest

Blizzard

Throughout time, artists have set their talents to capturing pivotal moments in history. To commemorate the grandest of crusades for Azeroth’s heroes, we’re asking you to bring forth your talents to encapsulate the campaign into Argus. Let the fel* of your creativity flow using pens, pencil, paints, or your favorite art program to capture the events, people, and environs of the Shadows of Argus for posterity… and prizes.

We’re looking for your best Argus themed artwork either with traditional media or via digital media.

First Place: Three qualified entrants will be chosen and receive one signed World of Warcraft: Legion Collector’s Edition and one Starseeker Pet and Mount Bundle.

Runner-Ups: Ten qualified entrants will be chosen to receive one Starseeker Pet and Mount Bundle.

Entries can be submitted during the period of August 30 through September 30, 2017 to CommunityContestsNA@blizzard.com. Each submission must be a high-resolution JPEG file of no more than 5MB in size to be considered for the contest. A submission must be your original work, and cannot include, in whole or part, any previously created work.

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Good luck in your artistic journey!

*You may need a bit of green – perhaps some purples too, but definitely green. Use fel responsibly. May cause itching, skin pigmentation changes and irritation, general hunger, and sudden feelings of world domination. Do not use without warlock or demon hunter supervision. Do not use fel and operate heavy machinery. Warnings aside, we’re sure it will all be fine.

Broken Shore Skip & Argus Requirement

Players with at least one character that has completed the Broken Shore scenario quest , will now be allowed to skip the Scenario on future characters. Pick up the quest from Khadgar, and then he will have another option to skip the quest. It's important to note that this quest must be completed (through completing the scenario or using the skip), before the character can start the Argus questline.

Blizzard

Seems this is actually a bit more complicated than I/we thought - it is intended that alt characters can skip the Broken Shore scenario, as long as another character on your account has completed it.

So... what people may be seeing in regards to having to complete the scenario likely means they haven't completed it on at least one character. To make sure this activates for your alts, you will need to have logged into your main character, or one that has complete the Broken Shore scenario, after the launch of 7.3.

Once you've logged in with a character who has completed the scenario, you will be able to speak with Khadgar at Krasus' Landing and accept the "Assault on the Broken Shore" quest.

Khadgar should have an option to skip the scenario when you next speak with him, then you will need to turn in the quest and finally return to Dalaran (via Hearthstone or otherwise) to receive your Argus introduction quest.

Half and half. It's technically locked behind Broken Shore, but is able to be skipped on every character after the first. A bit of a communication issue this morning, but from my current understanding this is the intended functionality.

Khadgar at Krasus' Landing in Dalaran should offer you a quest for the Broken Shore when you hit 110, if you didn't receive it automatically.

Unsullied and Relinquished Tokens

Unsullied Tokens have been dropping across Argus and Blizzard has confirmed they are supposed to be BoA! Feel free to send these ilvl 880 pieces to your alts to help gear them up!

Class Visual Updates

Solanis has posted announcing that this round of visual updates has come to a close, but there are more planned for the future.

Blizzard

Thank you to everyone who spent their time and energy playtesting on the PTR, providing constructive feedback, and putting many more eyes on our class visual updates for 7.3.

This round of updates has come to a close, and we have much more planned for the future. While significant strides were made for this patch, some spell updates had promise, but didn’t quite hit the mark and we’ve taken them back to the drawing board. Our initiative to update visuals and effects, especially regarding combat, carries on. Your feedback has helped us guide our priorities going forward.

Thank you once again!

Argus World Quests on Alts

Blizzard has clarified that World Quests may require some prerequisite story quests, but as of right now all the current World Quests will require you to complete Chapter 1&2 of the Argus Storyline. Check out

Empowered Artifact Traits

Blizzard has confirmed that the Empowered Artifact Traits will automatically unlock after you spend the first 34 points in your artifact. Check out more tips for alts in Patch 7.3.

评论来自 perculia

The Argus story section also says when all the beacons are unlocked - we could copy that info over to the Vindicaar guide.

评论来自 kodora1316

on 2017-08-31T20:32:51-05:00

Thank you!

评论来自 DarkAviator

on 2017-08-31T21:33:55-05:00

Wait, these are all the beacons? The only area with about enough beacons is Mac'Aree. So much for the often proclaimed "You don't need to fly there, there are teleporters everywhere." Thanks, anti-flying crowd, for getting us this. :(

评论来自 dustinalex

on 2017-08-31T22:06:47-05:00

Wait, these are all the beacons? The only area with about enough beacons is Mac'Aree. So much for the often proclaimed "You don't need to fly there, there are teleporters everywhere." Thanks, anti-flying crowd, for getting us this. :(

But these are instant teleports, basically from flight path to flight path. This is much faster than flight paths. But not as freeing as flying.

评论来自 Stormwander

on 2017-08-31T23:32:25-05:00

So alts don't need to do the Broken Shore questline, which is great, but it appears it does still need to be done before you can access the class mount quest. I'm saddened by this as I was really hoping I wouldn't have to continue grinding the quests when I have the Power Ascended on the alt already and just want to buy the alternate color of a class mount (such as hunters and paladins can). I checked at the mount vendor in my order hall and it didn't offer anything, even though - in this case - my main beastmaster hunter had already unlocked the mount but my survival hunter could see nothing despite the artifact having Power Ascended. And yes, I know I could just switch specs on my main but then I'd have to pour more AP into an artifact I already have maxed on another toon. It's not the end of the world and I'll get over it, I was just hoping for a tad more catch-up mechanics. Ah well, I'll take what I can get and be satisfied.

评论来自 sinangelus

on 2017-08-31T23:57:49-05:00

Can't believe they lied to us in 7.3 Q&A... They said majority of world quests will unlock account wide, so I thought maybe like Suramar where a character without "good Suramaritarian" progress gets 50-70% of the daily quests (some remain locked like famous Shock Baton quest until prerequisites are met), but nope, you get absolutely zero, zilch world quests on Argus so I have to drag 12 characters through the whole questline? I like long, full of lore questlines - ONCE. Twice or thrice is bearable, 5+ times is boring as hell. What was Blizzard thinking really?

评论来自 SilverDragon234

on 2017-09-01T01:21:38-05:00

Vortus should sell the unsullied tokens for either order hall resources, gold, or argunites whever he has a chance.

评论来自 chindok

on 2017-09-01T01:28:34-05:00

If I skip the Broken Shore scenario on an alt (my main did it already), will that alt lose out on reputation? I wasn't paying attention to quest completions at the time.

评论来自 marko1997

on 2017-09-01T04:24:30-05:00

hm 19th on EU is Deepwind Dunk not Tarren Mill vs Southshore is it diffrent for US ?

评论来自 Pektra

on 2017-09-01T04:43:34-05:00

Aw, poo. As an art student I jumped at the art contest only to see it's for US/Canada residents only... :(

评论来自 Nulgar

on 2017-09-01T06:16:30-05:00

If I skip the Broken Shore scenario on an alt (my main did it already), will that alt lose out on reputation? I wasn't paying attention to quest completions at the time.

Don't think so, it's one quest with the requirement to "do the scenario", which you can skip now, so you turn in the same amount of quests anyway.

评论来自 Voodik

on 2017-09-01T06:45:52-05:00

need a skull on map for new rares

评论来自 ED209

on 2017-09-01T09:20:39-05:00

need a skull on map for new rares

Yeah. Also, it'd be cool if they had a track rares option added to the tracking list.

评论来自 dumenc

on 2017-09-01T13:12:19-05:00

So alts don't need to do the Broken Shore questline, which is great, but it appears it does still need to be done before you can access the class mount quest. I'm saddened by this as I was really hoping I wouldn't have to continue grinding the quests when I have the Power Ascended on the alt already and just want to buy the alternate color of a class mount (such as hunters and paladins can). I checked at the mount vendor in my order hall and it didn't offer anything, even though - in this case - my main beastmaster hunter had already unlocked the mount but my survival hunter could see nothing despite the artifact having Power Ascended. And yes, I know I could just switch specs on my main but then I'd have to pour more AP into an artifact I already have maxed on another toon. It's not the end of the world and I'll get over it, I was just hoping for a tad more catch-up mechanics. Ah well, I'll take what I can get and be satisfied.

Yup, the mount still req. the whole questchain, but they added a big nerf to the quest requeriments (i thing that was around 50%), so it should be easier now.